Motorola Opportunity IT Business Systems Analyst

Hello!

My name is Mary Schroeder and I'm a member of the Motorola Staffing
Team. I am looking for a candidate to fill the role of IT Business
Systems Analyst in our Arlington Heights, IL. location. I've included
a job description below for reference.


If you have an interest in applying to these positions, please
Search by Job ID 61648 at www.motorolacareers.com.

If you apply and are qualified, your resume will be forwarded to the
appropriate hiring manager. I look forward to receiving your
application!


Regards,

Mary Schroeder

Global Talent Supply Team

Motorola Inc.

www.motorolacareers.com

Motorola is an Equal Opportunity/affirmative Action Employer. We
welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce.

Department Description

Materials and Planning Center of Excellence is a part of Supply Chain
IT Build team that provides business solution to the Integrated Supply
Chain Business team. This team is responsible for developing custom
development solutions or to provide solutions using "Off the Shelf"
vendor solutions in the area of materials management and sales and
operations planning.

Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations

The IT Business Systems Analyst is the primary interface with key
business clients for business requirements, gap analysis, and
configuration of internally developed or third party applications.
They are responsible for planning and coordinating a variety of
business and technical areas (e.g. manufacturing/CIM, engineering,
business, messaging, e-commerce) to be enabled with automated systems.
They determine techniques to improve the basis for decision making,
policy construction, design and execution. They provide technical
assistance in identifying, evaluating, creating specifications for and
deploying/implementing solutions that are cost effective and meet
client requirements. They coordinate with all organizations involved
to ascertain system requirements, (e.g., program functions, output
requirements, input data acquisition, data validation, archiving, and
system techniques and controls). They ensure that the final solution
meets client needs as well as functional requirements.

Depth of experience in own IT field/ applications and working
knowledge of others

Lead and coordinate IT activities with business users on the
functional specification definition, testing and training of flow
team.

Contributes to recommendations for improvements in the solution
development lifecycle standards for information technology deployment

Coordinate with multiple organizations to ascertain business
requirements

Configures complex business applications

Performs more complex systems integration and regression testing

Provides business process improvement suggestions
Understands multiple processes/applications in the business function

Performs business application tests across complex systems

Additional Health and Safety Requirements (U.S. ADA): Position
requires ability to use a computer for 4 or more hours a day.

Travel and/or work off-hours may be required.

Specific Knowledge/Skills

BSCS, BSCE, BSSoftE, MSCS and/or equivalent education or knowledge.

MBA, concentration MIS is a plus

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong Technical skills and ability to work in multiple technologies
such as Unix, Windows, Shell Scripting, Perl, SQL, Java, XML etc

Demonstrated Understanding of Supply Chain business processes and
terminology such as
Supply Planning including safety stock planning, sourcing networks,
capacity modeling, bills of material, material constraints, cutover
plans, and the impact of material, capacity and supplier constraints
on supply and demand.
Collaborative supply planning workflows (Out-sourced manufacturing
models)
Inventory management and associated processes (Safety stock, excess
and Obsolescence etc)
Fulfillment processes (Available to Promise, Configure to Promise,
etc)

Preferable to have some knowledge of web-services and service oriented
architecture

Should have around 6 years of application software development &
implementation experience

Should have reasonably good communication and collaboration skills


Experience with using Oracle ERP systems, Oracle APS, i2 suites in the
planning.

Deep understanding of the Motorola business processes and related
functions is a plus.